Nickelodeon starlet Jennette McCurdy will be H-E-B’s celebrity spokesperson for its back-to-school advertising campaign this year. McCurdy, who co-stars on Nickelodeon’s iCarly, will appear in TV and newspaper ads, outdoor boards, in-store signs and H-E-B’s My H-E-B Texas Life publication. The ad campaign runs from July 13 to August 31 in Texas. The campaign also […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that a middle-income family may spend as much a $226,920 to raise a child born in 2010 to the age of 18. I’d say that’s a bargain considering the blessing a child is for a family. Of course how many children do you know that were born after the […]
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Local baking company C.H. Guenther is helping fifteen graduating seniors from the San Antonio Independent School District achieve their goal of a college education by awarding them with each with $1,500 scholarships. The presentation was made during a luncheon last week. Guenther’s scholarship program began in 2001 to mark the company’s 150th anniversary. This year’s […]
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Teachers need to get the hell out of the way! We need to make room for some fast cars. Because while hordes of teachers are facing the chopping block to help balance the budget, Texas will spend some $25 million in state dollars to promote Formula One auto racing in Austin. Hot damn! It’s all […]
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Kids in Business Foundation, a non-profit organization teaching children the basics of business and finance, will hold a Prepared 4 Life Lemonade Day on May 1 in San Antonio. Contests will be held for best lemonade, highest profiting stand and best presentation. The deadline for children to sign up for Lemonade Day is April 24. […]
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All week, across the country, Time Warner Cable is teaming with students to promote science, technology, engineering and math related careers as part of the second annual “Connect a Million Minds.” As part of the education initiative, on Thursday, the cable company will bring the world of wireless technology to a class of 40, Henry […]
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Your football team is the Lions, your baseball team is the Tigers and the Pistons hold your honor in the Association. You live in Detroit. And if that were not bad enough your kids may soon be dumbed. I mean doomed. Detroit Public Schools may have to close half of its schools as part of […]
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This one is so juicy you’ll choke. There are a lot of happy, retired New York City teachers and employees of the City University of New York. Happy because they are currently collecting annual pensions of more than $100,000. You may now go and throw up. To be exact, 729 are receiving the bloated pensions […]
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The Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to St. Mary’s University’s Bill Greehey School of Business to enhance the classrooms with video technology–allowing the students to interact with business leaders across the country and the world, the university announced Friday. Existing meeting rooms in the Albert B. Alkek Business Building will […]
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Texas A&M University was rated among the top schools in the country for producing the best graduates, according to a survey in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. Only Penn State University ranked ahead of Texas A&M, based in College Station, in the paper’s survey of top corporate recruiters at nearly 480 companies. Recruiters say graduates of […]
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